Greatest folk guitarists, part 3:

Now the white blues people:

Rory Block! Terraplane blues, (Robert Johnson)

Live:

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Here is my teach, Backwards Sam Firk, playing Old country Dump,

Mike Stewart, RIP:

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I have a lot of Firk stories🙂

He recorded around 1962 on Fonotone Records, a couple of tracks with John Fahey but this I believe is pure Firk.

Here is Firk and John Fahey, Black swampers Blues. John and Mike, RIP.

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The great Ry Cooder:

Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie)

Live:

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And from Paris Texas movie:

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And another GREAT movie theme and a great movie:

The Long Riders!!!!:

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Another virtuoso, Leo Kottke. I first heard him around 1963. Reading the album liner I thought it was a joke and it was really John Fahey!

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Here Leo is with another dobro virtuoso from Union Station, Jerry Douglas:

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James Taylor, Fire and rain, acoustic live:

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Joni Mitchell: 1970, live, Both sides now:

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Joan baez, Donna Donna:

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Ralph McTell, Streets of London, live: Great song!

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Tom Paxton, Last thing on my mind, live, 1966:

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